Warrant for Benazir’s arrest issued

Published April 20, 2002

RAWALPINDI, April 19: An accountability court here has issued a non-bailable warrant for the arrest of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Earlier, the same AC had declared the PPP chairperson “proclaimed offender”.

Ms Bhutto was awarded sentence by an Ehtesab bench of the Lahore High Court comprising former Judge Malik Qayum.

The sentence, however, was set aside by the supreme court when charges against the former judges for being bias were proved.—PPI